Quote of the day: NYT's Op-Ed-ist, Thomas L. Friedman.

"This moment [Obama's win] was necessary, for despite a century of civil rights legislation, judicial interventions and social activism — despite Brown v. Board of Education, Martin Luther King’s I-have-a-dream crusade and the 1964 Civil Rights Act — the Civil War could never truly be said to have ended until America’s white majority actually elected an African-American as president.

That is what happened Tuesday night and that is why we awake this morning to a different country. The struggle for equal rights is far from over, but we start afresh now from a whole new baseline. Let every child and every citizen and every new immigrant know that from this day forward everything really is possible in America."

--Thomas L. Friedman, "Fininishing Our Work," Op-Eds, New York Times, November 4, 2008.